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26 Mart 2010 Cuma


Kempinski Hotel The Dome Belek, a luxury golf, spa and thalasso resort hotel in Belek-Antalya with a private beachfront, has found a perfect setting in one of the most picturesque corners of the Turkish Riviera.

Our luxur
y resort hotel surrounded by Mediterranean and Taurus Mountains, manages to embrace modernity in the utmost tranquillity and privacy.Kempinski Hotel The Dome was rated Turkey’s Leading Golf Resort by World Travel Awards in 2008 and 2007 and The Best Luxury Coastal Resort by World Luxury Hotel Awards in 2008. Fountain of youth for body, mind and soul... The Dome Spa, a true oasis of peace relaxation with an area of 3.600 sqm is one of the biggest Spa and Beauty Centre in Turkey. The Dome Spa is a place of amazing quietude where it is easy to regain one's inner balance,so as to restore the harmony of body, mind and soul...

Rejuvenate your senses with our Special Spa Treatments

SHIATSU
This
traditional Japanese treatment art means “finger pressure”. In this technique the pressure applied by the hands stimulates the inner body and natural energies contained within the body circulation.

LOMI-LOMI-NUI MASSAGE
The queen of the Hawaiian temple mass
ages, a spiritual section of the Hawaiian culture. The massage movements performed with changeable and connected movements of the lower arm and the elbow, it allows for the joints to relax, and the soul is freed...

SHIROABYANGA

A combination of Abhyanga and Shirodhara for relaxation. A massage
that, with the application of hot, spicy oils, relaxes your body, mind and soul, and it is revitalizing.It soothes the nerve system, resurrects your feelings and cleanses up the energy channels...

ST BARTH HARMONY
Enjoy a relaxing, gentle body massage with intensive care products specially tailored to your needs. Choose pure, slightly warmed coconut oil for in
tensive conditioning of especially dry skin...

ABHYANGA

It exceptionally relaxes the body, the soul and the mind. A complete body massage suitable to your constitution with A
yurveda oils (Prakriti). This traditional massage, by stimulating the energy channels in the organism, activates the blood circulation...

CLASSIC MASSAGE

An in depth and s
ensitive massage that is muscle relaxing and stress removing. A massage meant for the muscles. With light or strong touches the blood circulation is quickened up, and it is conducted to suite varying needs. Real relaxation is one step away...

GOLF



PLATINUM GOLF PACKAGE
You are invited to spend an unforgettable golf week.

What the package includes
Enjoy a marvelous golf week of luxury at Kempinski Hotel The Dome Belek, and the two spectacular golf courses of Antalya Golf Club, "The Sultan", PGA endorsed and "The Pasha", (18 holes each).
• Seven nights half board stay
• One special Golfer Sport Massage per person (local)
• Welcome drink
• House wine and fruit plate in guest room upon arrival
• Five Green Fees per person on 2 x PGA Sultan, 2 x Pasha and 1 x National
• Free access to Health and Fitness facilities
• Roundtrip airport transfer

BRONZE GOLF PACKAGE
Enjoy marvelous golf days of luxury at Kempinski Hotel The Dome Belek and the two spectacular golf courses of Antalya Golf Club; "The Sultan" , PGA endorsed and "The Pasha"

What the package includes
•Four nights half
board stay in either Superior or Deluxe room
•3*18 hole Green Fee per person during your stay (1*PGA Sultan and 2*Pasha


•1*Golfers Massage per person
•House wine and fruit plate



25 Mart 2010 Perşembe

CALISTA LUXURY RESORT HOTEL


Calista Luxury Resort
has created the most unique hotel experience in the world, placing itself at the top of the list of luxury resorts, both in Turkey and in the world. Calista Luxury Resort has emerged with a unparalleled conceptual design, from its unique architecture to its world-class service. Calista Luxury Resort provides unequaled service to its guests that exceeds even the highest standards. In addition to its 5-star status, Calista Luxury Resort brings new life to tourism, delivering all possible attractions of the Antalya Belek region, where quality and beauty stand at the forefront.

SUPERIOR VILLAS
1st Floo
r: Living room (50” LCD TV, DVD player, and laptop), dining room, office, kitchen, and storage room. Bedroom with French bed, bathroom with Jacuzzi, shower cabinet and WC. Terrace and private Pool. 2nd Floor: Three bedrooms. Two with French beds and one with Twin bed. Three bathrooms with Jacuzzi, shower cabinet and WC. Balcony.


CALLOS SPA
SPA center of the Calista Luxury Resort, comprising 3500m2, offers a big variety of health and care facilities: Turkish bath, saunas, steam bath, ice room, Jacuzzi, massage, beauty center and many other treatments.

THAI MASSAGE
The benefits of this massage have been enjoyed for hundreds of years by this Far-East culture. Today it has been shown to be one of the best message techniques in the world, recommended by doctors to promote health and wellbeing. With this massage you will experience the energy of the Far-East at its best, with it’s physical and metabolic effects on the body. This technique includes special clothing for aromatheraphy, manual message and foot message.
TURKISH BATH (HAMMAM)
Experience the glamour of 1000 years of Ottoman tradition with a massage and cleansing on the ancient marble slab. This massage opens of the pores and removes dead skin, cleansing the skin of bacteria and enabling your skin to breath. The Hammam experience brings health, liveliness and radiance to your skin, turning negative energy to positive energy. This experience provides the ideal beginning for your Spa experience, and ensures the best enjoyment of other Spa applications.

SPA VIP
A few exclusive rooms in our salon are designed and prepared specially for our VIP guests. We prepare special treatments that will enable you to feel pampered and relaxed. We offer special Jacuzzi, sauna, shower and massage treatments in your room, and prepare the beverages of your choice, at your pre-selected reservation time.

WAKANABI MASSAGE
This massage, enjoyed by African women, is an intensive humidity and aroma massage. An anti-stress cream, made with cacao oil, is applied to the entire body. The massage continues with an application of warm chocolate to the body. Cacao oil contains Vitamin E, which has anti-aging effects on the skin. It moisturizes the skin and energizes the body. The aroma of the chocolate reduces stress, providing renewal for the body, mind and spirit.

BALI MASSAGE
Indonesian culture is known for it’s beautiful, lively women woman. Their massage techniques are at the forefront in the world, with various types of massages offering great both pleasure, health and deep relaxation that you can feel in your body. A variety of oils are used, including those made from grape, jasmine, pineapple, coconut, pine, lavender, and plant extracts, with the special aromas that offer comfort, relief from stress and energy. You can feel the physical and psychological effects when this massage is applied.
AFRICA MASSAGE
This massage is applied by African ladies and it is an intensive humidity and aroma massage. The whole body is applied with anti-stress massage made with cacao oil and after that it continues by applying hot chocolate to the body. Cacao oil contains Ginseng and vitamine E and it has anti aging affect for the skin. It humidifies the body and arouses the body. The smell of the chocolate decreases the stres and the massage provides the renewal of the body, mind and soul.

GOLF

The area of Belek with international quality golf clubs and mild climate hosts golf players throughout the year. Calista Luxury Resort, is providing you with all your golfing needs with Carya Golf, National Golf, Sueno golf and other clubs. Golf Packages are prepared with care, or you may create your own “A la Carte” Golf Package.


http://www.calista.com.tr




22 Mart 2010 Pazartesi

XANADU RESORT HOTEL

This luxurious and modern resort hotel is located directly on the beach and opposite the Noblis golf course.

It offers the ultimate in All Inclusive holidays with laundry service, ten-pin bowling and even 24-hour room service as part of its allinclusive programme. This hotel will appeal to guests who seek high standards with excellent facilities to hand.

Xanadu, fringed by the majesty of the nearby Taurus Mountains and the Turquoise-coloured Mediterranean sea...
With its architecturally impressive complex of 420 rooms spread across the hotel and Villa type bungalows...
Lush gardens... Blossoming in perfect splendour...


BEAUTIFUL & LUXURIOUS RESORT SPA OFFERING THE BEST IN SPA TREATMENTS





The Shang-Du Spa is a sanctuary of peace and relaxation. Exquisitely decorated in the style of the region, the spa offers a wide range of treatments in one of the ten single treatment rooms. The treatments are in the image and spirit of the Silk Road journey, ranging from Ayurvedic to European and Asian massages, scrubs and body wraps, aqua therapy, facials, manicure and pedicures. All in a variety of styles from the different regions.

THE NAME SHANG-DU & OUR PHISOLOPHY

Xanadu takes its primary inspiration from the geographical location of Turkey at the crossroads of civilization, as well as from the famous city Shang-Du situated nearby Peking in China, during the 13th Century of Kublai Khans reign.
Shang Du Spa was born out of the intention of indulging our guests in an ultimate healing sanctuary for the senses which offers a unique variety of spa lifestyle treatments that promote relaxation, reduce stress and encourage youthful radiance.
Taking influences from Asian healing traditions, spa philosophies, treatments and products and yet reflect the diversity of Turkey.
We aim to focus on regaining or maintaining balance in your mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing. Our thoughtfully designed signature menu provides you with a full range of pampering experience with authentic spa treatments that deliver results geared towards your wellness.

http://www.xanaduresort.com.tr

21 Mart 2010 Pazar

ELA QUALITY RESORT HOTEL


We wanted to let every guest of us taste the irresistible joy of the reign of the sultans, feeling at the same time the comfort and warmth of home.

Details that make difference underlie our understanding of service!

Welcome to the Palace of the 21st Century where Dream and Quality encounters Reality!

Ela Quality Resort, has been created for you blending Turkish hospitality and traditions with a magnificent architecture, by a western interpretation of the mysterious world of the East. We are meticulously continuing our traditions, the heritage of our culture, concealing magnificence in a plain external appearance is only one of them...
Carrying you b
eyond time, taking you to a surprising trip between yesterday and today of our culture. Our architecture concept that reveals an unaccustomed harmony between traditional and modern is not a coincidence...

Starting with a logo inspired by the Tulip Era palaces of the Ottoman Empire where sultans led lives of pleasure, we render our invitation unforgettable with quality services customized to each age and taste, under guidance of our notion of customized service. You may want to be a guest of a sultan for holiday. We wanted to invite you to be the sultan himself and welcomed you with our logo inspired by Ottoman Palaces.

At our hotel, we let you breathe our traditions inherited from our culture. Hiding the magnificence under a modest appearance is just one of these...We want to carry you beyond time by a journey between the yesterday and today of our culture. Our architectural concept that provides an unusual harmony between the traditional and the modern is not a coincident.

Customized service and small privileges hidden in details in our hotel where even standard rooms are beyond standards are meant to make you feel home...

Our Villas and Suites for those seeking joy, pleasure and quality more…

Our Family Concept that turn holidays of those who cannot think of a holiday with kids into an unforgettable memory...

Our mini club concept and Everland Q that moves our little guests to a distinct world...

A gastronomic journey offered by our award-winning kitchen team with tastes certified by Chain de Rotisseur...

Ab-ı Zen Spa & Rituals Lounge certified by European SPA Association where you will meet therapeutic power of water...
Our halls that will turn your parties into summits that will be remembered for years...
Let us make you experience the privilege of tasting the splendor of the Ottoman Palaces, feeling at home at Ela Quality Resort.


SPA & WELLNESS


We have everything a SPA center must have! We just want to inform you of more!

Our SPA center which is a member of TURKAP (Association of Thermal Springs, Thalasso and Treatment Centers) has an international existence too as it is also a member of the European SPAs Association (ESPA) that represents the sector on the European Union level.

AB-I ZEN Spa & Rituals Lounge, which is a Ela Quality Resort trademark, has EUROPESPA WELL certificate verifying that its service and infrastructure is at the European SPA quality and standards.


At AB-I ZEN we use 100% organic and natural products for 160 different care and massage services.
We know that nature is the life source of all living things
and it is the greatest curative power. We are aware of what nature offers to us and we respect that. For this reason, most important aspect of AB-I ZEN is that no substance that would harm nature is used for our rituals and treatments.

AB-I ZEN is designed for relaxation and spiritual integration inits entirety!
Ab-ı Zen is a new generation SPA center in the form of RITUALS
& HOLISTIC SPA. We created new designs after the Ottoman and Turkish treatment traditions and we continue to develop these.

AB-I ZEN offers Wellness options for physical and spiritual relaxation!
Physical and spiritu
al relaxation has an incomparable place in enhancement of our life quality. AB-I ZEN offers guests of the Ela Quality Resort an environment of wellness to let them protect their health and fitness along with SPA services. Consultation, nutrition counseling, personal exercise etc...

For this reason we wish everyone a good and peaceful life.


GOLF

Antalya Belek region has turned into an elite golf center in recent years which combines elegance, quality and prestige, with golf facilities at world standards opening one after another. Antalya Belek region is suitable for golfing owing to its mild climate, and the city has become one of the significant centers of world golf tourism with new investments. Belek is now a golf center preferred by world golfers with is cultural, historical and natural riches as well as quality golf courses.

The region, which offers perfect opportunities to those who seek sea bathing, tanning and golfing, hosts quite a number of guests of different nations in the high season between October and May.

If you see holiday as an opportunity to respond to the invitation of the golf fields, you are at the right place. Our hotel at the heart of the Belek golfing paradise introduce you to leading golf courses of Belek; Carya Golf, Tat Golf Club and National Golf Club located within 10-15 minutes drive. Golf packages prepared specially for you, golf lovers, are meant to let you have distinct golfing pleasures at golf courses of differing qualities.

http://www.elaresort.com


20 Mart 2010 Cumartesi

GLORIA HOTELS & RESORTS

GLORIA HOTELS & RESORTS

On the coast of the Mediterranean, there is a place where the sun smiles all year round: Gloria...



The biggest Golf Course in Turkey boasting 45 holes! Gloria is the most exclusive complex on the Turkish Riviera set in the glorious Mediterranean landscape and the climate to match. It’s the only complex in Turkey that can offer golf and a curative Thalasso center...

Stunning beaches, 3 five star luxury hotels, select villas and Gloria Suites. If you couldn’t imagine a holiday without golf, then Gloria with its two stunning Championship golf courses plus a wonderful 9 hole course awaits you. Come and join us!


GLORIA GOLF RESORT

Makes golf enamors taste 4-season Golf together with gorgeous Mediterranean climate.

Gloria Golf Resort is the most established of the three true beach front hotels. Offering a total life of experience, Gloria Golf Resort has become an established favourite among the Gloria Brand of hotels.


The designer of the challanging new golf course which is consisted of three rolling lines is the famous architech Michel Gayon. Our golf course consisted of 4 big lakes and 67 bunkers is a necessary challenge for every Golfer!!!


Gloria “New” Championship Golf Course 18 Hole, 72 Par,6,239m Construction Start Date: December 2004
Seeding Date:
May 2005
Official Opening Date:
November 2005

Location: Gloria Hotels & Resorts, Belek – Antalya
Area: 700,000 m², pine forest
Female Handicapped: 36
Male Handicapped: 36
Greens: Approximately 600 m²
Tees: White, yellow, blue, red, and each tee is about 150 m²
Fairways: 3 rolling lines, challanging
Bunkers: 15,000 m² (67 of them)
Lake: 4 of them, 57,000 m², consistent water level.
Grass characteristics: The Greens and Tees are Tifdwarf Bermuda Grass and the Fairways are Bermuda 419.
Course Watering System: Toro LTC 3 Model. The watering system is completely computer equipped and is controlled by the air station.
Range Equipment: Wittek and Standard Comp./USA
Maintenance Equipment: Greens, Tee, Fairway grass mower TORO. The other equipments are Ransones, Cushman brands.
Spikes: Only soft spikes are allowed to be used.
Driving Range: 2 levels, West—South lined 48 shot racecourse. Grass Tees 30 shot racecourse (26,000 m² ).
Putting Green: It's behind the Driving Range, approximately 800 m² and it’s at a 300 m distance to the first Tee.
Chipping & Pitching Green: 1 Pitching Green, 1 Practice Bunker Green.
Buggy: There are 55 Electric Golf cars, for 2 persons
Golf Sets Rentals: 20 / NIKE.
Pro (Golf Teacher): Subject to a fee.
Pro Shop: For rent or for sale Golf equipment, as well as Europe’s and our country’s most superior textile products are available.
Club Building: 3,200 m², it is specially built for Gloria Golf Resort. A comfortable restaurant, bar, lobby for the Golfers, cabin, Pro-Shop, dressing rooms with a locker for men and women are available.


La Source SPA & Wellness


Therapy of Sounds and Colors
Special lighting, a breeze of natural aromatic fragrances and candles invite you to La Source. This relaxing and therapeutic ambiance is accompanied by sounds of nature and a specially designed music system. Along with 6 massage rooms, Ayurveda couples massage, Thai massage and affusion massage rooms await you at La Source. Skin care with Babor and Thalgo brands, shock shower after sauna, Turkish bath rituals, tea ceremonies and many other special features are all for you to feel purified and regenerated...

GLORIA VERDE RESORT

Wake up with the twittering of the birds! Just a few steps to meet with Mediterranean Sea.


You will feel the rejuvenating touch and the invigoration of the Mediterranean on your body in a spa atmosphere stolen from heaven.


Therapy from the Sea

A matchless world merging therapeutic effect of SPA massages with thalasso treatments awaits you at Asklepion SPA & Thalasso. With its specially designed lighting, sound and ventilation systems, Asklepion embodies a true comfort zone for you.


Here, you will explore the therapeutic effect coming from the sea and minerals; and feel the magic of deep sea in your body and soul. What you should do to move this unique sense to one step further is to leave yourself to caring hands of our professional massage specialists...


GLORIA SERENITY RESORT

A totally new hotel concept. VIP services. A very special gift from Mediterranean!


A new hotel concept with its ultimate quality... A unique Mediterranean nature with unlimited VIP service. With modern architecture, decoration and the details specially designed for you Gloria Serenity Resort is a unique land where you will find every opportunity to feel rejuvenated.

Restore your internal balance


Gloria Serenity SPA & Wellness decorated in tranquil, peaceful and warm tones offer you the perfect ambiance to catch internal harmony. Far East themed wooden patterns, embroidery and objects symbolizing balance of the soul and mind inspire a unique sense of integrity. You will be reborn here physically and spiritually with all your beauty...

http://www.gloria.com.tr

P.S. I have been there once. I was there last summer (2009). It is an amazing hotel.


CORNELIA DIAMOND GOLF RESORT & SPA

The Cornelia Diamond Golf Resort & Spa is located in the middle to eastern part of the resort with a very large garden and beach area. It is less than 5 minutes from its Nick Faldo designed golf course meaning as a golf hotel, the 27 hole golf course is now very close



The hotel has everything you want in a 5 star luxury resort. With its extremely varied accommodation and excellent facilities, spending a week here will be a fantastic experience for golfers and non golfers alike.

Built on the success of its smaller ‘Cornelia Deluxe’ sister hotel, the Cornelia Diamond is style and quality on a new level, which is an excellent value facility given its very high quality. The outside garden area is vast with well planned areas for sport and relaxation that do not crowd each other.



There are excellent value special offers for winter periods both at half board and all inclusive, which gives guests the choice that most larger all inclusive specialist hotels don’t offer. This is an excellent new hotel which is already achieving the highest status amongst the larger, luxurious all inclusive resorts.



www.corneliaresort.com



BELEK - ANTALYA SPA&GOLF HOTELS


ABOUT BELEK


A truly paradise for tourists on the shore of the Mediterranean in the midst of its own pine forests. Belek's natural beauty was discovered in 1984 and the region was proclaimed the "Belek Tourism Center". In later years, Belek became what it is today, a paradise on earth, thanks to cooperation between the Belek Tourism Investors Association and the Tourism Ministry. The Belek region on the Mediterranean coast is located 30 kilometers on the east side of Antalya province. Recently it was chosen by the Tourism Ministry to be a tourism model not just for today's tourist, but also for the tourist of the next thousand years.
Belek!... What a tourism paradise!.

The region has 47 four or five-stars hotels and first-class holiday villages and five golf courses. All of the facilities that have been designated first-class provide an ideal atmosphere for families and meticulously offer many opportunities and services aimed at pleasing their guests. All the facilities offer floodlit tennis courts, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, completely equipped health and fitness centers, play areas and many more possibilities. Belek hoteliers are proud that Belek is the new face of Turkish tourism.

We will visit each hotel in Belek. I hope you will enjoy with it...




CALISTA LUXURY RESORT

Calista Luxury Resort
has created the most unique hotel experience in the world, placing itself at the top of the list of luxury resorts, both in Turkey and in the world. Calista Luxury Resort has emerged with a unparalleled conceptual design, from its unique architecture to its world-class service. Calista Luxury Resort provides unequaled service to its guests that exceeds even the highest standards. In addition to its 5-star status, Calista Luxury Resort brings new life to tourism, delivering all possible attractions of the Antalya Belek region, where quality and beauty stand at the forefront.














SPA center of the Calista Luxury Resort, comprising 3500m2, offers a big variety of health and care facilities: Turkish bath, saunas, steam bath, ice room, Jacuzzi, massage, beauty center and many other treatments.


TURKISH BATH (HAMMAM)

Experience the glamour of 1000 years of Ottoman tradition with a massage and cleansing on the ancient marble slab. This massage opens of the pores and removes dead skin, cleansing the skin of bacteria and enabling your skin to breath. The Hammam experience brings health, liveliness and radiance to your skin, turning negative energy to positive energy. This experience provides the ideal beginning for your Spa experience, and ensures the best enjoyment of other Spa applications.

THAI MASSAGE
The benefits of this massage have been enjoyed for hundreds of years by this Far-East culture. Today it has been shown to be one of the best message techniques in the world, recommended by doctors to promote health and wellbeing. With this massage you will experience the energy of the Far-East at its best, with it’s physical and metabolic effects on the body. This technique includes special clothing for aromatheraphy, manual message and foot message.

AFRICA MASSAGE

This massage
is applied by African ladies and it is an intensive humidity and aroma massage. The whole body is applied with anti-stress massage made with cacao oil and after that it continues by applying hot chocolate to the body. Cacao oil contains Ginseng and vitamine E and it has anti aging affect for the skin. It humidifies the body and arouses the body. The smell of the chocolate decreases the stres and the massage provides the renewal of the body, mind and soul.

GOLF

The area of Belek with international quality golf clubs and mild climate hosts golf players throughout the year. Calista Luxury Resort, is providing you with all your golfing needs with Carya Golf, National Golf, Sueno golf and other clubs. Golf Packages are prepared with care, or you may create your own “A la Carte” Golf Package.




Do not worry! This is just the begginnig. You will find lots of amazing hotels in this blog.
Just follw me...

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